Discworld author Terry Pratchett has died aged 66
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 3:22 pm
BBC News wrote:UK fantasy author Terry Pratchett dies aged 66 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, his publisher says.
I was deeply saddened to learn that Sir Terry Pratchett has died. The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds.
In over 70 books, Terry enriched the planet like few before him. As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirise this world: he did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humour and constant invention.
Terry faced his Alzheimer's disease (an "embuggerance", as he called it) publicly and bravely. Over the last few years, it was his writing that sustained him. His legacy will endure for decades to come.
My sympathies go out to Terry's wife Lyn, their daughter Rhianna, to his close friend Rob Wilkins, and to all closest to him."
- Larry Finlay, MD at Transworld Publishers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156
I've read a few of his books, played all 3 games and enjoyed the movies Sky1 put out a couple years ago. I recall watching a VHS cartoon too which I rented from the library in the late 90s, which was actually really rather funny.